The Colour Mill

This illustration was designed for Ice Cream Social, a side-project of mine.

Its just about to be printed out on an 8ft by 4ft Vinyl banner, and will be used to decorate the DJ booth in Sin City.

The characters from the illustration are taken from the various flyers that I’ve designed for the night over the past year, the final effect should make it seem like the DJs are “sitting in the ice cream van”. Check back for a photo soon…

Sensibly Independent Dentistry have just launched a new website to promote their new affordable dentistry plan.

The Colour Mill was responsible for creating the graphic concept design for the website and previously I’d designed the brand identity, character illustrations and a series of data sheets for SID.

This double-sided A5 mail shot flyer was designed for e-commerce company FireAlarmsDirect to promote their new Simplicity Micro product range.

I’ve designed these “postcard style” flyers as part of promotional campaign to contact my existing and potential clients.

I plan to write a hand-written message in each, filling people in on my recent news and introducing my design services. They were printed on FSC certified 100% recycled pulpboard and the photo on the front is of Singleton Park, Swansea.

Look out for one in the post, or let me know if want one.

Its been a bit quiet round here recently as I’ve been temporarily working on site for Swansea Life magazine.

The local lifestyle magazine covers news, entertainment and sport in and around Swansea. They also design numerous sister publications that cover life and business around South West Wales.

http://www.swansealife.co.uk/

Last week I introduced some typography to the site, both as part of the logo and as some headline / pull-quote type images, each giving a little insight into my thoughts and hopefully brightening the pages.

For the font, I chose Diglossia from Discourse Type. I set out to find a Welsh font, and it turns out that Diglossia was both created in Swansea and with the Welsh language in mind. It takes advantage of Open Type features to include ligatures (two letters joined to form one) from the Welsh alphabet.

Visually its very appealing to me too, it reminds me of the work of artist David Jones, whilst also having a modern, clean feel.

The Food Passion Brochure was one of my last design projects at Web Media Works (now renamed Square Tab).

After successfully designing the Food Passion website, we were awarded the contract to design the printed version for the Swansea food guide’s third year.

It involved designing the cover, restaurant listings, adverts, editorial and other custom page layouts and graphics. With a strict schedule and established image to stick to to, the project was intense and rewarding.

If you’re from (or visiting) Swansea why not check out the Food Passion website and blog.

I left Uni in 2004, after studying for my BA (Hons) Digital Art with Digital Animation in London. Returning to Swansea, I was lucky enough to be offered a position at Web Media Works.

After four years experience working as lead Graphic Designer and Co-Director at Web Media Works, it was time to part ways, so I left and setup on my own.

And so, The Colour Mill was born.

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I designed this recently for some friends to congratulate them on their new baby.

The stylised shapes combined with a simple colour scheme made a striking design that I was really pleased with.

To finish, it was printed out and mounted on some card, for that home-made, crafty feel.

These new club flyers were delivered last week, for in-house project: Ice Cream Social.

They were printed digitally on FSC 100% Recycled stock. The colour is vibrant and they feel slightly waxy and sturdy.

The digital printing process gives better value for money on short runs (eg. less than 500 copies) than litho printing, so you can print less and waste less!

Look out for the flyers dotted around Swansea’s pubs and shops over the coming month.